I often get questions from new writers about how to get the word out that they are there and available for writing work. This topic has been coming up a lot recently, so even though it’s been covered before, I thought it was time to revisit it. From my experience, when you’re starting out as a [...] [...more]
If you’re working as a freelance writer, then you should be promoting yourself. You might wonder whether you have the time and money to undertake promotional activity, and whether there’s any point. I can tell you, from my own experience, that there IS a point. Promoting yourself will help you to attract new clients for [...] [...more]
You can file this under ‘things I didn’t do when I should have’. I heard about RSSHugger months ago and somehow I never got around to signing up. The premise is simple. For the price of a review on your blog, you get a page where you can promote your RSS feed and your blog. [...] [...more]
The January issue of Writing Lab News features another sneak preview. One of my contacts wrote to me saying that he thought he’d been scammed. I commiserated and offered some tips for avoiding scams in the future. Those tips became an article and if you subscribe to Writing Lab News, you’ll see it before anyone [...] [...more]
There’s more than one way to promote your site or blog. Though I’m a big fan of social media, I was interested to read this post on PiggyBankPie, titled How I Received 850 Visitors Without Using Social Media Sites. The 850 visitors we are talking about in this article are, as I like to call, [...] [...more]
As you know, I think all writers should blog. That’s because blogging is a great way to sharpen your writing skills in a relaxing way. Having a blog is also a wonderful way to connect with potential clients, with other writers and online friends. And of course, it’s a fantastic way to promote yourself. However, [...] [...more]
I’ve been writing about copyright for a long time. In fact, two of my early articles on this blog’s predecessor were titled Copyright: rent, don’t sell and Copyrights and copy wrongs. You could call it a recurring obsession. Now, I’ve been talking about copyright again, but this time it’s to Sologig News. Jeremy Schnitker emailed me [...] [...more]
I’m not sure quite when Caroline Middlebrook’s blog caught my notice. It couldn’t have been that long ago, as it’s only been running since August. However, since that time Caroline a software developer turned online entrepreneur, has created an enormous amount of buzz about her blog. That interests me, as I’m always trying to find [...] [...more]
And I’ll say it again - promotion. No-one knows you’re out there if you don’t tell them, so you have to get the word out about your writing services and skills. If you’re stuck for ideas on how to self promote, there’s a mega list of suggestions at 120 Self Promotion Ideas for Graphic Designers [...] [...more]
A lot of people find my blog when they are looking to make money online. In fact, they want to know how to do it. While that’s not the main purpose of this blog, like many others I want my blogs and sites to serve three purposes. First, I want them to be useful to [...] [...more]
